tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-313975032011-07-07T21:49:05.331-07:00Australian poet Jaya Savige's award-winning first collection of poems, latecomers (UQP 2005).Jaya Savigehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06500296393643944041noreply@blogger.comBlogger21100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31397503.post-1153393064073299002006-07-20T03:46:00.000-07:002006-09-13T00:14:46.056-07:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5592/3396/1600/latecomers.0.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/5592/3396/320/latecomers.0.jpg" alt="" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:100%;">Title: latecomers<br />Author: <a href="http://www.austlit.edu.au/run?ex=ShowAgent&agentId=A4%28%23">Jaya Savige</a><br />Publisher: <a href="http://www.uqp.uq.edu.au/">UQP</a><br />Year: 2005<br />Pages: 80<br />ISBN: 0702235199<br /><span style="font-size:78%;"><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">Awards:<br /></span></span><span style="font-size:85%;">2006 <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_Slessor_Prize_for_Poetry">Kenneth Slessor Prize</a><br />2006 <a href="http://www.asc.uq.edu.au/asal/index.php?apply=3&amp;menu=awards&order=3&amp;extra=default">Mary Gilmore Prize</a> (Highly Commended)<br />2006 <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queensland_Premier%27s_Literary_Awards">Judith Wright Calanthe Award </a>(Shortlisted)<br />2004 Thomas Shapcott Poetry Prize<br />2003 Val Vallis Award for Poetry</span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">The poems in </span>latecomers <span style="font-style: italic;">go beyond what we take for granted these days in a first collection: refinement of language and cadence, allusiveness, wit. Moving easily through abstract wonders and the streets of the inner city, they return for nourishment to family and "the Island" - Bribie, its fishing-life and beaches - as a test always of what is native and endures.</span><br /><br />- <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Malouf">David Malouf</a><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Jaya Savige is one of the most exciting young poets of the last few years. This first book is a big event, something new in the current climate of self-chekcked carefulness; as I read these poems I sense change emerging.</span><br /><br />- <a href="http://www.robertadamson.com/">Robert Adamson</a><br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Savige's voice is immediate, his eye, heart and mind are intelligent and sensitive. He reminds us of our lyrical traditions but obliterates their conservative inheritances, making total sense of the now.</span><br /><br />- <a href="http://www.peterminter.com/books/books.html">Peter Minter</a></span><span style="font-style: italic;"><font><font><br /></span></span></span><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><font><br /><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31397503-115339306407329900?l=jayasavige.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Jaya Savigehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06500296393643944041noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31397503.post-1153392154922312402006-07-20T03:41:00.000-07:002010-07-27T08:37:11.784-07:00The <span style="font-style: italic;">Sydney Morning Herald</span> on the 2006 NSW Premier's Literary Awards dinner:<br /><br />"There was a buzz about that evening's unexpected highlights:<br /><br /><span style="font-size:85%;">1. Tim Flannery's six-word speech when <span style="font-style:italic;"><a href="http://www.theweathermakers.com/">The Weather Makers</a></span> was named Book of the Year: "Go and buy a solar panel."<br /><br /><a href="http://www.smh.com.au/news/books/elegant-poetry-as-publishers-hover/2006/05/24/1148150328920.html">2. The young poetry prize-winner Jaya Savige's thrilling recital of Kenneth Slessor's poem South Country. For a moment art obliterated politics and commerce.</a><br /><br />3. Rosemary Dobson - a tiny figure with a walking stick - reciting her own poem Museum 2.<br /><br />4. And even the gracious speech by the Premier, Morris Iemma, who admitted his only leisure reading was bedtime stories to his children but stressed the importance of a love of reading and writing for all children. OK, someone probably fed him the words, but the children's authors loved him."</span><br /><br />- Susan Wyndham, <span style="font-style: italic;">Sydney Morning Herald</span> May 25, 2006<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/31397503-115339215492231240?l=jayasavige.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Jaya Savigehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06500296393643944041noreply@blogger.com0